Time Management Breakdown

Sometimes, when a student tells me they and their family are TOO busy for them to havepracticed all week (for several weeks in a row), my dry erase marker comes out and we go to the white board. It’s time for a time management breakdown.

There, I break down 24 hours into minutes. We determine how many hours they sleep, are in school, travel to and fro, watch television, do homework, etc.

Then I break those hours into minutes and subtract them from the 24 hour minutes.

When they see, in black and white (or whatever color I happen to be writing with on that day) how many “free” minutes are available, and how minuscule 10, 15, 20 or even 30 minutes are compared to how many minutes are in each and every day, suddenly they realize how empty their excuse is.

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